Re: EMC configuration help

[Henry Palonen <henkka-at-yty.net>]

Ah. Sorry, I forgot the [1] link:

[1] http://www.linuxcnc.org/handbook/faq/faq.html

Henkka

* Henry Palonen (henkka-at-yty.net) [22.11.2001 18:11]:
> Hello Erich,
> 
> There is FAQ regarding this at [1]. I'm copying it here for your
> convience:
> ----
> EMC: How to I set the steps per unit for each axis? (TOC)
> INPUT_SCALE and OUTPUT_SCALE are number of pulses for each unit as
> defined in the UNITS = line. One for mm, 0.03937007874016 for inch. 
> 
> Using inch and steppermod, you just need 
> 
> INPUT_SCALE =           8000 0.000 
> 
> With inch and freqmod selected you need both
> 
> INPUT_SCALE = 8000    0.000
> OUTPUT_SCALE =  8000    0.000
> 
> With inch and smdromod selected you can change the value between input and
> output.  Input would be the number of steps per unit on the stepper
> motor and output would be the number of pulses reported by the encoder per
> unit. Since output scale is written back into the ini, they may look a
> bit different that you ente after you run once but setting them as
> suggested above should do the trick.
> 
> ----
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Henkka
> 
> * Erich Müller (emcuser-at-gonzales.swb.de) [22.11.2001 16:48]:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > since control over rs-232 is currently not feasable with EMC I did bite
> > the bullet and procured an additional step and direction 3-axis driver
> > card. The machine is now connected and responding to commands (kind of). 
> > Now I am stuck with not beeing able to spot the place where the number of
> > steps per revolution, pitch of the leadscrews and the length of the
> > axes is made known to EMC (x and y are the same pitch but different pitch
> > for the z-axis). Help me out please, I am just cursed with blindness and
> > can not see find the location to make the required entries. 

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